Ask HN: Why there is no good Graph Visualization Library in Javascript?

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Post by wslh » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 3:49 PM UTC

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Re: Ask HN: Why there is no good Graph Visualization Library in Javascript?

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Post by madhouse » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 3:52 PM UTC

Which libraries did you check, that did not fulfill your requirements, and why?

I've used both gRaphael (http://g.raphaeljs.com/) and jqPlot (http://www.jqplot.com/) before, and found both to be at least decent (though, I had a few issues with jqPlot, but switching to gRaphael solved those).

Re: Ask HN: Why there is no good Graph Visualization Library in Javascript?

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Post by mindcrime » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 3:59 PM UTC

madhouse wrote: post #2

Which libraries did you check, that did not fulfill your requirements, and why? I've used both gRaphael ( http://g.raphaeljs.com/ ) and jqPlot ( http://www.jqplot.com/ ) before, and found both to be at least decent (though, I had a few issues with jqPlot, but switching to gRaphael solved those).

There's also Protovis (http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/) which has been used for graph visualization.

Re: Ask HN: Why there is no good Graph Visualization Library in Javascript?

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Post by revorad » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 4:52 PM UTC

What kind of graphs do you mean? If you're talking about charts, not graphs with nodes and edges, then there are a few:

http://highcharts.com

http://g.raphaeljs.com/

http://www.jqplot.com/

http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

http://dygraphs.com/

http://thejit.org/

http://www.jstat.org/

http://processingjs.org/

http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

Re: Ask HN: Why there is no good Graph Visualization Library in Javascript?

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Post by gjvc » Sat, Mar 26, 2011, 5:11 PM UTC

http://code.google.com/p/flot/

http://smoothiecharts.org/

Re: Ask HN: Why there is no good Graph Visualization Library in Javascript?

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Post by nmunson » Sun, Mar 27, 2011, 3:24 AM UTC

revorad wrote: post #4

What kind of graphs do you mean? If you're talking about charts, not graphs with nodes and edges, then there are a few: http://highcharts.com http://g.raphaeljs.com/ http://www.jqplot.com/ http://vis.stanford.edu/protovis/ http://code.google.com/p/flot/ http://dygraphs.com/ http://thejit.org/ http://www.jstat.org/ http://processingjs.org/ http://mbostock.github.com/d3/

Thumbs up for highcharts. Easy to use and really flexible.